Fruit-basket cover



(No Model.)

J. H. MARVIL.

FRUIT BASKET COVER.

Patented Mar. 22, 1887.

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FRUIT-BASKET COVER.

EPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,732, dated March 22, 1887,

Application tiled February U, 1857. Serial No. 227,048. (No model.)

.To aZZ whom it natty concern:

Be it known that I, J OSHUA H. llLlRVIL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Laurel, in the county of Sussex and State of Delaware, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Basket Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to fruit-basket covers of the class described in Letters Patent granted to me March 16, 1886, No. 888,179, and October 5, 1886, No. 350,876.

The object of the invention is to improve, perfect, and simplify the construction of the basket-cover in such manner as to permit the fruit to be heaped in the basket and exposed to view without affording any access thereto between the basket rim and cover.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a central vertical sec tion of the upper part of a fruitbasket provided with my improved cover. Fig. 2 is a plan of the upper side of my improved fruitbasket cover. 3 is a plan of the under side of the same.

By referring to these drawings it will be seen that the basket is made in the usual manner from vertical splints 1, braced by hoops 2 and a double chine, 3.

The basket-cover consists of an octagonal frame comprising two pairs of strips, 4 and 5, having mitered ends. These strips i and 5 are arranged, as shown, to form the borderframe of the cover, and their mitered ends are securely connected in any suitable manner, thereby forming an octagon with four short sides and four long sides. The central portion of this octagonal frame is covered with one or more cross-slats, 6, arranged parallel with the slats el and having their ends secured to the slats 5, as shown.

On the under side of the cover is a single tier of fellies, '7, by which the octagonal frame is raised above the basket-rim. Each of these follies consists of the segment of a circle, and their adjacent ends are formed as shown in Fig. 3, being cut off at an angle to the radius of a circle, sothat when the fellies are secured to the mitered ends of the under slats, 5, narrow flaring spaces 8 will be left between their ends. As will be seen, these segmental fellics are of such length that when secured beneath the short sides of the octagonal frame their ends very nearly meet. The cover thus constructed is secured to the basketrim by means of wires 9, fastened to two diametrically-opposite fellies. \Vhen the cover is placed in posi tion, these wires are projected down between the inner and outer hoops of the chine and between the adjacent slats of the basket-body, whence their lower ends may be bent upward and over the chine, if desired, to hold the cover securely in place.

By this construction the cost of the basketcover is much less than when two or more tiers of follies are employed, as in'my patent No. 338,179; and by reason of the slight space between the ends of the fellies a better protection is afforded to the fruit than by the short oblong corner-blocks shown in my Patent No. 350,376. At the same time sufficient space is provided beneath the cover for heaping the contents of the basket above its rim, whereby the quality of the goods can be displayed withoutremoving the cover, and ample ventilation permitted. It will also be seen that the proxheaped up fruit to be confined securely in the basket during transportation, and prevents surreptitious removal of fruit without detaching the cover.

In the construction shown it will be ob served that the border-frame of the cover is composed of four pieces of uniform length cut at their ends to asquare miter, These mitered ends are placed together, one over another, with the miters parallel, and are securely connected by the same nails that secure the segmental fellies in place, thus saving nearly onethird of the nailing usually required in this class of work, and thereby effecting considerable economy in labor, time, and material.

W'hat I claim as my invention is 1. A cover for fruit-baskcts, comprising an octagonal border -irame, one or more crossslats, and a singletier of segmental follies secured to thennder side of said frame with their adjacent ends ncarlyin contact, one felly being attached beneath each shortside of the imity of the folly ends enables the piled or border-frame and extending beyond the same, metrically-opposite fellies, substantially as {C substantially as shown and described. shown and described.

2. A cover for fruit-baskets, comprising an In testimony whereof I il'ffiX my signature in octagonal bordenfraine consisting of two pairs presence of two witnesses. of parallel slats having mitered ends, one or more cross-slats, a single tier of segmental fel-i JOSHUA MARVIL' lies secured to the under side of said frame with their adjacent ends nearly in contact, and fastening-wires projecting from two did-i \Vitnesses:

H. F. MARVIL, 1 J OHN H. ELLIOTT. 

